Foster care

'Fostering is a learning curve but a privilege'

Mum's joy at fostering 60 children over 20 years

Foster carer urges council action over payment delay

Couple keep fostering after caring for 100 children

Recruitment drive to attract more foster parents

Children were put in harmful situations - Ofsted

'My foster parents gave me a forever home'

Council to increase fostering cash incentive

Foster couple thought New Year Honours a wind-up

Foster carers for 18 years 'would never look back'

'We wanted to foster to make a difference'

'Becoming a foster parent made me a better person'

A hundred businesses sign up to be foster friendly

'My foster kids had never celebrated Christmas'

'Taking in my grandchildren has left me penniless'

Foster carers honoured at awards

'I had to teach foster parents my cultural needs'

Inspectors praise council children's services

New foster care programme launched in Cornwall

Businesses urged to help young people in care

'I help care leavers who are constantly failed'

'Turning 18 when you're in care is really scary'

'Fostering feels like being any other kind of parent'